Halloween brings the return of haunted houses and pumpkin patches. However, fans of the Halloween adventure have found a new way to have some fun -- corn mazes.

They are "growing" in popularity, especially near agricultural communities.

What You Need To Know

  • Old McDonald's Farm outside of Sackets Harbor has a new 10-acre corn maze

  • The maze is designed for both families to enjoy and enthusiasts to figure out

  • The farm says it uses a special program before it plants the corn that allows the corn to be planted with the maze already created

Julia Robbins Ledoux and her nephew Colton are testing out her farm's newest adventure for the very first time.

“Corn mazes are definitely kind of one of those must-do fall activities,” Robbins Ledoux said. “You’ve got to go apple picking. You’ve got to go pumpkin picking and you’ve got to go do a corn maze.”

In time for Halloween, Old McDonald's Farm, just outside of Seconds Harbor, is opening up its annual corn maze.

“Yeah, it's a lot of fun and it's actually really good exercise,” Robbins Ledoux added.

This year's theme is the Three Little Pigs.

“It's a kids story, but it's a pretty complicated maze,” she said. “So even the most enthusiastic corn maze participants will enjoy it,”

And she's not kidding. It is a gigantic 10-acre corn maze and drone video from the farm can help you understand just how big that is.

“We say about 30 to 40 minutes,” Robbins Ledoux said. “You want to give yourself to get to get all the way around the whole maze.”

But don't be too intimidated. Throughout this maze, there are helpful signs that you can choose to use or not. But they do help you figure out which way to go.

“We don't want anyone getting lost,” she said. “The corn is very tall. It's at least 10 feet tall. It's like double my height.”

And as people finish this maze, Robbins Ledoux expects to hear the same question quite a bit – ‘How do you create something so amazing?’

And the answer to that question may be more impressive than the maze itself.

“We actually plant that design into the corn,” Robbins Ledoux added.

So each spring, when the planting begins, the farm uses a specialized computer program to map out the design.

“That goes on like a USB drive, gets plugged into your computer in the tractor and tells the computer in the tractor where to actually plant the seeds,” she said.

She says five years ago, they mowed a simple design.

“The tractors drive themselves,” Robbins Ledoux said. “Most people probably don't even know that, but the tractors drive themselves.

Robbins Ledoux says for those families that may not want to tackle that big of a maze, there is also a much smaller version to try as well.